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The Interagency commission on combating legalization (laundering) of the proceeds from crime and financing of terrorism serves as the basic tool of coordination of activity of the domestic anti-money laundering system. The Commission was formed according to order of the Ministry of Finance No. 122n dated October 25, 2005 and includes representatives of 12 federal executive bodies and the Bank of Russia.
The activities of the Commission are focused on:
- Working out proposals on improvement of the AML/CFT system;
- Elaboration of the coordinated position on international cooperation issues in this sphere;
- Addressing tasks of informational and other interaction of federal executive bodies and the Bank of Russia on certain directions of combating money laundering and financing of terrorism;
- Implementation of the plan of actions on realization of the Concept of national strategy of combating money laundering and financing of terrorism approved by the President of the Russian Federation.
Consecutive implementation of the Concept should ensure optimization of the national AML/CFT system, strengthening of potential of all its elements, increase of efficiency of our participation in international cooperation in this sphere with regard to internationally recognized standards and the obligations imposed to Russia as constant member of the UN Security Council, as member of the «G8», «G20», the FATF and other specialized international structures.
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